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  An attractive pop-up Polish version of Snow White was designed by the master of the 20th century pop up books Vojtěch Kubašta.

  An uncommon Slovenian translation of Pope’s decree against the Communism with a unique striking cover was published by a Missionary press to educate children.

  Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…

A detailed insight into British-Portuguese trade of Port Wine from the 18th to the early 19th century, featuring a rare second part, bound in highly decorative contemporary Morocco binding.   Two titles bound in one volume, 8º, 171 pp., 30 pp., blank, contemporary yellowish-brown Morocco binding with gold tooling, gilt edges, contemporary marbled endpapers (binding lightly sun-toned in margins and…

  Of great historical importance – the earliest known portrait of Friedrich von Gentz, one of the central figures of the Vienna Conference of 1814-1815.

  12°. original illustrated cover, 62 pp. on darker paper, [2], (cover trimmed with a small loss of lettering on the right-hand side. inside good, clean, seemingly unread condition, wrappers with light foxing and minimal wear on the edges).  

Book on the geography of Portugal, richly illustrated with de Cantos’s unusually designed maps and drawings.   Small 8°, 138 pp. with colour illustrations, 2 mounted illustrations on brown paper, pink wrappers with flaps and hand-coloured illustration on the cover (three owner’s signatures on the first page and one on the top of the cover, small paper label on the…

PORTUGAL – ‘THE TÁVORA AFFAIR’ / ORIGINAL MSS. VIEW AND ACCOUNT:   Anon.   Manuscript, Lisbon, January 16, 1759. 4° (29.5 x 19.5 cm): 6 pp. manuscript, brown-black pen on 2 folded sheets of laid paper watermarked ‘M.Y.’ surmounted by a cross motif, not bound but loosely housed in modern marbled paper covers (Very Good, some, mostly light, staining and…

  The scarce wall map issue of Tomás López’s magnificent map of Portugal, one of the finest national maps of the kingdom from the Enlightenment period.

  An apparently unrecorded guidebook to Florida, issued around 1902 by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, a critically important driver of the development of Central Florida, including of Tampa Bay and Orlando, written by John W. White, the railway’s General Industrial Agent, the work is copiously illustrated with 25 photographic images and features a custom edition of the large format colour…